SG Heritage Dictionary

Stiffen [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To become stiff; to become more rigid or less flexible.

2. --Like bristles rose my stiffning hair.

3. To become more thick, or less soft; to be inspissated; to approach to hardness; as, melted substances stiffen as they cool.

4. The tender soil then stiffning by degrees--

5. To become less susceptible of impression; to become less susceptible of impression; to become less tender or yielding; to grow more obstinate.

6. Some souls, we see, grow hard and stiffen with adversity.

Stiffen [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

2. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of Israel. 2 Chronicles 36:13 .

3. STIFFEN the sinews; summon up the blood.

4. To make torpid; as stiffening grief.

5. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

Stiffen [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

Stiffen [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

2. To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.

3. To make torpid; to benumb.

Stiffened [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stiffen

Stiffener [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

Stiffening [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Something that is used to make a substance more stiff or less soft.

Stiffening [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making or becoming less pliable, or more thick, or more obstinate.

Stiffening [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Act or process of making stiff.

2. Something used to make anything stiff.

Stiffening [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Stiffen

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

1 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “stiffen”

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

2 Kings 17:14

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

2 Chronicles 30:8

Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

2 Chronicles 36:13

And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:17

And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

They refused to listen and failed to remember the wonders You performed among them. They stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return them to their bondage in Egypt. But You are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loving devotion, and You did not forsake them.

Nehemiah 9:29

And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

Jeremiah 17:23

But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Yet they would not listen or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and would not listen or receive My discipline.

Jeremiah 19:15

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”